Puzzle 1
Starter clue: L = E
OQNKLFIRLNUGLGITMKFFLAKVTRAKXL,UVXUKAIYQDLOGINYKMXALV.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Hope Cryptograms Set 8
6 cryptograms to solve with a pencil. Each letter of the quote has been swapped for another letter, and the same swap holds all the way through.
20 pt ciphertext — the size a newspaper puzzle page never gives you. 26 pt ciphertext with wide letter spacing and room to write. Both sizes print on US Letter with the answer key on its own page.
Printing this web page instead? Press Ctrl+P (⌘+P on a Mac). The navigation and buttons drop away, and the answer key prints on its own page — open it below first if you want it included.
The puzzles
Puzzle 2
Starter clue: T = E
VUTSNVTHVYLQYVMNKPFNIYHPFYEUATMNHCVUTCFTLXRNKLDLFYET.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: X = N
RADIDXPLDXOSUXJ,-RADIDX,WIDUX,PLSWOARUXJSDUJWXOWXDXOSUXJ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: G = E
YXGWGJAKRKOUPFGRGAAJRPKOHWUNGUAYXGPGOGWWURTKOKSWXKZGA.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: G = E
QHMGDGYXLUAJYCJQUGHAUPQCIHHIGEAAY,AYLJCIHIJTLMGFGUEQUG.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: H = E
IPHDHLWTXIPLTSWXOXTWIDXYWRYIUHQJTRHNLHEHLIXGXYDWHNEHW.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Solver's cheat sheet
- Most common letters
- E T A O I N S H R D L U
- Most common 1-letter words
- A I
- Most common 2-letter words
- OF TO IN IT IS BE AS AT SO WE HE BY OR ON DO IF ME MY UP AN GO NO US AM
- Most common 3-letter words
- THE AND FOR ARE BUT NOT YOU ALL ANY CAN HER WAS ONE OUR OUT DAY GET HAS HIM HIS HOW MAN NEW NOW OLD SEE TWO WAY WHO BOY DID ITS LET PUT SAY SHE TOO USE
- Common double letters
- LL EE SS OO TT FF RR NN PP CC
- Common word endings
- -ING -ION -ENT -TION -LY -ED -ER -EST
- After an apostrophe
- T (don't) S (it's) RE (we're) VE (I've) LL (we'll) D (I'd)
Want this on its own sheet? Print the letter frequency chart.
Show the answer key (6 solutions)
- “Society became my glittering bride, And airy hopes my children.”— William Wordsworth, 1814, The Excursion, Book III (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=R B=Z C=X D=P E=V F=T G=M H=Q I=Y J=F K=I L=E M=L N=C O=S P=J Q=O R=B S=U T=G U=A V=N W=K X=D Y=H Z=W
- “The potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice.”— Samuel Johnson, 1791, Boswell, Life of Johnson, Life of Johnson (Boswell). Vol. VIII. Chap. II (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=B B=K C=D D=V E=C F=R G=Z H=N I=W J=X K=F L=A M=Y N=O O=Q P=G Q=L R=S S=P T=E U=H V=T W=J X=M Y=I Z=U
- “The men of England, - the men, I mean, of light and leading in England.”— Edmund Burke, 1790, Reflections on the Revolution in France, Vol. III. p. 365 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=H B=X C=B D=E E=Z F=J G=C H=K I=M J=D K=U L=F M=Q N=S O=G P=O Q=P R=T S=L T=Y U=A V=R W=I X=N Y=W Z=V
- “The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844, Essays: Second SeriesCipher key: A=S B=J C=Q D=X E=V F=L G=E H=C I=Y J=A K=O L=K M=W N=M O=F P=D Q=Z R=N S=U T=G U=I V=B W=R X=H Y=T Z=P
- “It never was our guise to slight the poor, or aught humane despise.”— Alexander Pope, 1726, The Odyssey of Homer (Pope's translation), Book XIV. Line 65 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=O B=Z C=G D=V E=P F=D G=E H=T I=H J=U K=F L=A M=N N=K O=J P=L Q=I R=Y S=X T=M U=S V=B W=Q X=W Y=R Z=C
- “There is nothing so monstrous but we can believe it of ourselves.”— Robert Louis Stevenson, 1881, Virginibus Puerisque and Other PapersCipher key: A=D B=Z C=K D=R E=V F=Y G=F H=E I=T J=A K=P L=I M=J N=L O=M P=H Q=C R=B S=G T=N U=W V=Q W=S X=O Y=U Z=X